Hi Dave, I kind of got the hint from Alan Altmark's discussion of the CRLF change. Based on everything discussed, it had to be something I assumed........ ahhhh that cursed word! Anyway, I'm still going to have to figure out the console thing, but at least I am finally moving forward. Too many years with MVS are going to be a hindrance I think.
Thanks for the information and hopefully someone else out there will be saved from this little catastrophic error. Oh, and the only reason I modified the line was that I was trying anything to see if something would work since I had no idea what the failure really was. Jill -----Original Message----- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00 Hi, Jill. Yes, you definitely need the "" at the end of the parm file line. You shouldn't, in most cases, need to modify that file at all. The funny character at the end of the line, if you look at it via Xedit, is the Linux NL character (I think) which delimits the end of a string in the U*ix world. Linux at boot time may be running off the end of the parm line, since the LF character isn't there any more and picking up garbage... DJ > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Jill Grine > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: > 00 > > > Whoa! I am finally getting somewhere. I tried the tape IPL > again, but left > one (two) > thing(s) different. The PARM card had "" at the end, and before I had > deleted it. > Maybe I needed to keep it? Also using new files from IUCV URL Mark Post > recommended. > I got far enough to get the prompt for network device, but the > system won't > accept > console input. I remember there was discussion about this, so I > will search > the > archives to see what I did wrong with this. At least there is hope! > > Thanks all. > > (Can't dowload directly to VM because it isn't defined to the network for > outside access.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: > 00 > > > Which is why I like to download important stuff directly to VM > using either > FTP or Charlotte. Saves a whole lot of aggravation. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alan Altmark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:29 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > 01: 00 > > > > On Wednesday, 04/24/2002 at 07:24 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Make sure to ftp in binary by hand and not let Netscape do > > > it for you. We've found that depending on the configuration > > > of your PC the browse can negotiate with the web server to > > > corrupt your file while downloading ;-) > > > > We have found that web browsers often request ASCII transmission of > > everything by default, on the erroneous assumption that it > means the same > > thing as binary (Everything In The Universe uses the same encoding as > > Windows, right?). That means that LF gets translated to CRLF, > messing up > > any offsets into the binary image. And, of course, the LF > wasn't *really* > > an LF, it was compiled/compressed code or data! > > > > Alan Altmark > > Sr. Software Engineer > > IBM z/VM Development >
